53 cities dropped Flock Safety over federal data sharing, then handed identical pole mounts to Axon
In city council chambers across the country, officials have celebrated the removal of Flock Safety cameras as a privacy victory. Within months, Axon installation crews often appear on the same poles, bolting in replacement plate readers. According to TechTimes, 53 cities have canceled Flock contracts, citing unauthorized federal data access, false alerts, and mass surveillance of innocent drivers. Many aren’t abandoning license plate readers altogether — they’re switching vendors. The surveillance footprint isn’t shrinking. It’s rebranding.
How deadset the politicians are on instituting mass surveillance shows the pressure they’re getting from their donors. The Epstein class must really be afraid. Not surprising since you got 2:
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They’re banking on people being told “but it’s not flock” and hoping that the technicality is what matters. Problem is I suspect that flock is already getting the tupperware treatment wherein it’s originally a company name being applied to all products in the same category. So it’s probably only a matter of time till all of these spyware corpos get labeled as flock.
Also fun fact I have never seen tupperware written down and around where I am it’s pronounced tubbaware, so I had to look that up.